General Admission Tickets
Tickets go on sale October 1st and are $15 online and $12 in advance at select TRUIST locations (beginning Oct. 5). Return tickets are available for $10 at the information booth and must be purchased before you leave on your first day at Christmas Village.
Cash will not be accepted at the door for entry to the Village or purchase of return tickets.
Children age 9 and under are free.
*No pets allowed-service animals only.
Dates and Times
- November 14, 2025 Fri 9:00am- 9:00pm
- November 15, 2025 Sat 9:00am- 6:00pm
- November 16, 2025 Sun 12:00pm- 6:00pm
Directions & Parking
Parking is FREE this year!
To get to Christmas Village, please search “The Fairgrounds Nashville” in your GPS app. Look for signs to direct you to parking lots.
We will offer two parking entrances this year to alleviate traffic congestion. Please consider using the Craighead St. entrance via Nolensville Pike, Bransford Ave, or I-440.
For accessible parking, enter via Wedgewood Ave. See the Fairgrounds Nashville Website www.thefairgrounds.com for more information.
Sneak-A-Peek
*By invite only
November 13, 2025 from 4:00-9:30 PM
If you are not already on our mailing list and want to receive an invitation to the 2025 event, please select the request an invite button below. Thank you for your interest.
Photos with Santa
Bring your own camera
Santa will be available to pose for pictures at the following times:
- Thursday, November 13, 2025: 4:00pm-9:00pm
- November 14, 2025 Fri 9:00am- 9:00pm
- November 15, 2025 Sat 9:00am- 6:00pm
- November 16, 2025 Sun 12:00pm- 6:00pm
FAQs
Tickets are $15 online (beginning Oct. 1) and $12 in advance at select TRUIST locations (beginning Oct. 5). Return tickets are available for $10 at the information booth and must be purchased before you leave on your first day at Christmas Village. Children 9 and under are free.
Cash will not be accepted for general admission tickets purchased at the door or for return tickets purchased at the information booth. However, the merchants at Christmas Village do accept cash as well as credit cards. The Fairgrounds Nashville charges a $10 parking fee that is cash only.
Christmas Village is located at the The Fairgrounds Nashville. The address to use if using a GPS device is 500 Wedgewood Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203.
PARKING will be free this year for all attendees! Christmas Village will be underwriting the parking cost for our guests.
Look for parking signage. We will offer two parking entrances this year to alleviate traffic congestion. Please consider using the Craighead St. entrance via Nolensville Pike, Bransford Ave, or I-440. For accessible parking, enter via Wedgewood Ave.
Parking attendants will be giving directions on available parking. Please check our Facebook (@christmasvillageTN) and twitter (@cmasvillage) pages for up-to-date parking information during the event.
Yes, accessible parking is available in Lot 11 and the Show Arena.There is also a handicap drop-off area in front of the expo building entrance. Please enter the Fairgrounds via Wedgewood Ave.
Yes, please use the GPS address 500 Wedgewood Ave. The drop-off spot is at the intersection of Wedgewood Ave and Rains Ave and is a short walk to the expo buildings.
An estimated 30,000 shoppers attend the event annually.
There are more than 250 merchants from 29 states who will be participating in Christmas Village this year.
The application will be posted in early February.
The waiting list does not roll over from one year to the next. Merchants are placed on the waiting list based on category and quality of merchandise and latest date available to be notified of acceptance. All decisions are final. We kindly request prospective merchants submit an application for no more than 3 consecutive years.
All packages should be shipped to:
Fairgrounds Nashville
401 Wingrove Street
Nashville, TN 37203
You must address the package to Christmas Village, along with your booth name and number so that your packages can be delivered. Packages delivered during the show will be left at the information booth and you will be paged to pick them up.This will occur twice a day to alleviate too many announcements and strain on the Faigrounds employees that we need elsewhere. Freight must be delivered between Friday, November 8 and Wednesday November 13th by 11:00 am. Packages must be sent via UPS or Fed Ex. And can be accepted throughout the show and will be brought to the buildings twice per day. Do not use USPS.
We do not rent wheelchairs, however, we are ADA accessible.
No pets allowed. Service animals only.
It was created in 1961 by the Nashville Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club, an organization made up of Alumnae members of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for women from colleges all over the United States and Canada who live in the middle Tennessee area, to raise money for its philanthropies and to engage its members in an interesting and worthwhile project.
Christmas Village has been held at the Fairgrounds Nashville since 1968.
In 2023, $696,000 was raised bringing cumulative donations to over $14.7 million since 1961.